Description
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the development of professional management.
With contributions on consultancy and the training of consultants, Taylorism and its appeal to socialists, the social position of managers, and the growth of the managerial class, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Models of management education and training: the ‘Consultancy Approach’
Michael Ferguson
2 Visible hands and visible handles: understanding the managerial revolution in the UK
John Quail
3 The evolution of education and training in British management consultancy
Michael Ferguson
4 Marxist manager amidst the Progressives: Walter N. Polakov and the Taylor Society
Diana Kelly
Retrospective
Diana Kelly
